Jay Leno Motorcycle Accident

[The Synergizer]

Bad luck comes in 3 - he better watch it.

Honestly though I wonder if the burn may has slightly affected any of his vision just enough to make it slightly worse...

[Steve Carlton]

Jay burning his face seems like the result of a foolish risk on his part. He was fixing a clogged fuel line on a steam car and there was a pilot light there as well? Is that right?

I'd like to see the circumstances of the wire and the parking lot before deciding if he made another bad decision.

I hope he makes a quick and full recovery- I think he's a first-class good guy.

[Sooner or later]

Originally Posted by The Synergizer

Bad luck comes in 3 - he better watch it.

Honestly though I wonder if the burn may has slightly affected any of his vision just enough to make it slightly worse...

1. Fire
2. Wreck
3. TV show canceled.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

Jay always looks really sleepy. Just a couple of slits for eyes. I wonder how sharp his situational awareness is in a moving vehicle.

I'm guessing it's the thing where eyes get baggy/extra skin. Lots of folks get surgery (eye lift?) to fix it. Yes, it's cosmetic, but I have to think that it affects vision as well, so not completely cosmetic.

Originally Posted by Tobra

There were some hunters did something like this on my father in laws property one time. He had acreage that butted up against property owned by Weyerhaeuser, trees for wood pulp. They had a little travel trailer at their camp. Apparently did not like my brother in law and his cousin riding three wheelers around, on their own property. They strung a wire between two trees. Wayne did not lose his head, but he still has a scar on his face. They came back and told my father in law. He went and burned everything at their camp. Travel trailer, truck, everything. Lucky for them they were not around when he got there.

No sheiße! Very lucky.

Originally Posted by Jeff Hail

"Never wage war with children that possess the means".

This was 48 years ago.

We had a speeding problem on my street when I was a kid about 8 or 9. People were hauling about 60 mph down our narrow street as a short cut when the posted speed was 20mph. It was not uncommon back then to have kids playing outside at 9PM.

We made our own cutouts. At night with people advertisements we grabbed from the local market trash bin. Just a flat piece of cardboard. We cut them out and short to kid height (3 feet or so). We used kite string one end tied to a tree and the other we would pull on when a car was in proximity. Both sides of the street were lined with parked cars so you could not swerve to avoid the inevitible. It was a true gauntlet.

Pull quickly and suddenly a little carboard person appears in your headlamps in front of you. On impact the string would break and cardboard cutout would go under or over the offending vehicle. That was a SPECTACLE. No time to pump the brakes.

You could hear both men and women scream if the windows were open like a horror movie. Complete colonic expulsion.

The behavioral effect on motor vehicle operation was outstanding. It stopped the speeding problem over one summer.

We thought we got caught one night and were in big trouble. One of the neighbors about 5 houses down was an older LAPD Homicide Detective and would walk his dog at night. We didnt see him but he saw what we were doing and when one of the drivers hit the cutout he locked his brakes up, jumped out and while he was checking under the car my neighbor confronted him, pulled his badge and berated the driver to tears.

We thought about a grapefruit on a string pulled taught but that might have broken a windshield or worse. The grapefruit was ruled out since real kinetics was off the table and my house was the only one with a grapefruit tree.

Evidently at the time some of the parents on the block knew about what we were doing and since it solved a problem they just let it go. I'm sure some were lurking in the shadows catching a front row visual that we were unaware of.

Funny thing is the Police use cutouts everywhere now. How many of you have been nailed on radar by a realistic cop cutout? I remember the fully uniformed police mannequin on the police motorcycle on Laurel Canyon south of Mulholland. I think Coldwater had one also in somebodies driveway. They gave drivers strokes.

That's fantastic. I've fantasized about that kind of thing myself, but in my version, I was professor X and could project realistic imagines directly into their heads. Your version seems a lot simpler.

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

Jay burning his face seems like the result of a foolish risk on his part. He was fixing a clogged fuel line on a steam car and there was a pilot light there as well? Is that right?

I'd like to see the circumstances of the wire and the parking lot before deciding if he made another bad decision.

I hope he makes a quick and full recovery- I think he's a first-class good guy.

Yeah, the fire thing was just super risky. He was lucky that it wasn't worse, and I suspect he got the absolutely best possible care.

[The Synergizer]

Surprised that there hasn't been a picture anywhere of the parking lot entrance after his crash. Wass it a standard cable that you see often locking it, or a thin wire?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by The Synergizer

Surprised that there hasn't been a picture anywhere of the parking lot entrance after his crash. Wass it a standard cable that you see often locking it, or a thin wire?

After your post, I went to see what I could find. I was surprised that nothing had been posted. I found lots of articles, and they all seemed to be based on the same couple of short statements from him "I cut through a parking lot." "someone had strung a wire, but not hung a flag." I didn't see anyone that had any more detail than that about where it was. And it seemed to have been unknown until a week or so after it happened.

[speeder]

Trust me, he won’t be suing anyone over this.

[masraum]

I don't see Jay as a big litigater, anyway.

[sc_rufctr]

I just heard about this... Jay needs to change his luck somehow.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Tobra

There were some hunters did something like this on my father in laws property one time. He had acreage that butted up against property owned by Weyerhaeuser, trees for wood pulp. They had a little travel trailer at their camp. Apparently did not like my brother in law and his cousin riding three wheelers around, on their own property. They strung a wire between two trees. Wayne did not lose his head, but he still has a scar on his face. They came back and told my father in law. He went and burned everything at their camp. Travel trailer, truck, everything. Lucky for them they were not around when he got there.

Old School payback "Nicely Done". I'm betting the "hunters" never returned to that area.

[sc_rufctr]

In this video Jay talks about the motorcycle accident starting 5.50.

[The Synergizer]

There's some graphic burn pictures in this interview.
He buys the nurses a vacation too!

[Chocaholic]

Jay wrote a good article explaining exactly what happened in this months Hagerty Drivers Club magazine.

He says he now does two kinds of shows, regular and extra crispy. He said one publication claimed Nancy Pelosi hit him with a hammer.

The accident certainly didn’t hurt his sense of humor.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

In this video Jay talks about the motorcycle accident starting 5.50.

That was a fascinating 27 mins.

Wow, most of the time when I have seen cables/wires/chains across a parking lot entrance, they are usually very low, closer to knee height. He certainly indicated that this one caught him higher than that. "If I was an older man this accident probably would have been more serious." LOL!

[911 Rod]

Is it just me that thinks our Jay is slipping mentally?
He's been repeating himself a lot and at times seems lost.
Him tilting his head back while driving is starting to hurt my own neck.